Bula
Bula was last recorded in 1950, when 5 babies were given it; 1,034 Americans have been recorded with it between 1881 and 1950 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Bula by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Bula?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #5,381, in 1950; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
43 babies in 1920, the peak
Bula peaked in 1920, when 43 girls were given it, #1,153 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | 5 | #5,381 | under 0.01 |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,034 | under 0.01 |
| 1945 | 5 | #4,627 | under 0.01 |
| 1944 | 7 | #3,728 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 10 | #3,064 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 11 | #2,835 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 6 | #4,009 | under 0.01 |
| 1940 | 6 | #3,911 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 10 | #2,753 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 17 | #1,952 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (63)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1937 | 19 | #1,791 | 0.02 |
| 1936 | 15 | #2,046 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 16 | #2,014 | 0.02 |
| 1934 | 23 | #1,564 | 0.02 |
| 1933 | 16 | #1,978 | 0.02 |
| 1932 | 21 | #1,693 | 0.02 |
| 1931 | 9 | #3,004 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 17 | #2,030 | 0.02 |
| 1929 | 27 | #1,494 | 0.02 |
| 1928 | 19 | #1,964 | 0.02 |
| 1927 | 25 | #1,682 | 0.02 |
| 1926 | 25 | #1,675 | 0.02 |
| 1925 | 28 | #1,581 | 0.02 |
| 1924 | 33 | #1,446 | 0.03 |
| 1923 | 40 | #1,232 | 0.03 |
| 1922 | 29 | #1,538 | 0.02 |
| 1921 | 35 | #1,343 | 0.03 |
| 1920 | 43 | #1,153 | 0.04 |
| 1919 | 32 | #1,371 | 0.03 |
| 1918 | 36 | #1,259 | 0.03 |
| 1917 | 27 | #1,437 | 0.02 |
| 1916 | 30 | #1,337 | 0.03 |
| 1915 | 39 | #1,077 | 0.04 |
| 1914 | 26 | #1,201 | 0.03 |
| 1913 | 19 | #1,314 | 0.03 |
| 1912 | 14 | #1,487 | 0.03 |
| 1911 | 13 | #1,313 | 0.03 |
| 1910 | 13 | #1,276 | 0.03 |
| 1909 | 18 | #966 | 0.05 |
| 1908 | 16 | #1,012 | 0.05 |
| 1907 | 13 | #1,098 | 0.04 |
| 1906 | 15 | #970 | 0.05 |
| 1905 | 13 | #1,063 | 0.04 |
| 1904 | 12 | #1,055 | 0.04 |
| 1903 | 5 | #1,828 | 0.02 |
| 1902 | 9 | #1,231 | 0.03 |
| 1900 | 15 | #975 | 0.05 |
| 1899 | 9 | #1,107 | 0.04 |
| 1898 | 10 | #1,109 | 0.04 |
| 1897 | 8 | #1,182 | 0.03 |
| 1896 | 12 | #962 | 0.05 |
| 1895 | 11 | #993 | 0.05 |
| 1894 | 12 | #910 | 0.05 |
| 1893 | 8 | #1,097 | 0.04 |
| 1892 | 8 | #1,094 | 0.04 |
| 1891 | 8 | #1,017 | 0.04 |
| 1890 | 14 | #730 | 0.07 |
| 1889 | 18 | #601 | 0.10 |
| 1887 | 6 | #1,046 | 0.04 |
| 1885 | 6 | #935 | 0.05 |
| 1884 | 5 | #1,047 | 0.04 |
| 1883 | 6 | #833 | 0.05 |
| 1881 | 6 | #750 | 0.07 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Bula a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Bula has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 63 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Bula: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Bula, and how old are they?
An estimated 70 Americans named Bula and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 172 people named Bula (163 women and girls, 9 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 135 born in the U.S. The Census count is 27% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 5,424 babies since 1880, Bula is the third most given (19% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Bula
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Bula and names like it
- Compare Bula and BulahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sBula peaked in 1920.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Bula since 1910.
- The top names of 1920The year the most babies were named Bula.
- Names starting with BMost given first.